Necktie.



LL.' HILL.

NBGKTIE.

APPLwATxoN FILED .mms 1o, 190e.

1,005,835., Patented oct-.111911.

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JACQB LIING-STON HILL, OF PHILADELPHIAQENNSYLVANIA,

Assieiron' BY DIRECT" .AND ASSIGNMENTS, TO SL11 VSGARF COI/[PAN i, A `GORI?OBA'IION 0F NEW .Tojaltwhomjlt may concern: ,v n l Be it known that I, JAooBiLI'vINGsToN HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new .and useful Improvement in Neckties, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to thel accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification.

The object of my invention is to so modify the structure of a necktie that, when used with the generally worn turn-down linen collar, it may be readily pulled back and forth, in knot, thereby facilitating the operation and avoiding undue strain upon the tie.

As is well known, hand tie (to which the invention is particularly applicable, although not limited thereto) comprises an elongated two-ply strip of fabric having cotton wadding or filling The central part of the tie is placed between the outer and inner folds of the collar, preparatory to securing the collar to the shirt. The bow or knot is then formed. In the formation of the bow or knot, it is necessary, to make a neat effect in tying, to pull one or the other or both ends of the tie, requiring that the central section of the tie shall slip back and forth between the two folds of the collar. It is always difficult, and sometimes impossible, to do this without pulling or dragging the tie with considerable force, causing iiijury to the tie, collar, or shirt. The tie may be torn, the padding or filling may be pulled out of place, the collar may be distorted or a button-hole in the neck-band of the shirt er collar may be torn out. At best, the difficulty in sliding the tie to just the proper position is so great that the final effect is more or less unsatisfactory.

I have discovered that the resistance of the tie to free sliding movement is due primaril to the Athicknessand clinging nature of the tie; the thickness of the tie causing itV to be confined with considerable pressure between the folds of the collar when the ends of the latter are of the neck-band, while the softness and I clinging natiire of the tie, to some extent,

causes a resistance to free movement in a circular direction after the collar is 1n ponncmin.

the operation of forming aA the ordinary four-in-l buttoned to the front- Specification of Letters Patent.` Patented Oct, 17, 1911 f y Application inea June 1o, isos. 'v serial No. 437,678.Y

sition. [To'jremedythes'e defects in a practicable way, it is necessary to avoid any complications of structure that would give rise to new evils of a more serious nature than those which it is sought to remove; and it is also desirable to .avoid any -substantial departure from the external appearance and unitary character of the present form of tie to which the public has been educated.

I have discovered lthatthe defects enumerated may be entirely eradicated by various expedients having certain features'I in common, the descriptionof which will bei best understood by making reference to the accompanying drawings in -which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tie embodying my invention, the intermediate part being shownon edge.' Fig. 2 is another perspective view of the saine showing a face view of the intermediate section.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same j,

in position on the collar which is partly broken away;

Figs. 4 and 5 areenlarged sections on the lines 4-4 and 5-5 respectively of Fig. 1, the thickness of thematerial, and especially of the cover, being exaggerated for purposes of clearness; Fig. 6 is a plan view, on a reduced scale, of a filling strip embodying my invention and ready for application to the tie; Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section, greatly enlarged, at the junction ofthe intermediate part and one end part of the filling of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a plan view, similar to Fig. 6, showing the filling made of a single piece.

IV will first describe the preferred embodiment of my invention.

, I first prepare (see Fig. 6) a strip a of muslin or other relatively thin material corresponding in length and width to that intermediate part of an ordinary filling piece for neck ties that in use is confined between the folds or wings of the collar. I apply to this strip sizing or stiffening material. Various sizing Compositions may bev used, such, for instance, as gelatin, starch, gum

arabic, glue or a mixture of glue and glycerin. To the ends of the sized stripl then attach, preferably by sewing, end strips 12,17, of cotton wadding, or other relatively soft and thick material; these end strips forming, in connection with the intermediate strip, a filling piece corresponding in length and breadth to the ordinary-filling piece, composed entirely of cotton wadding, that is commonly in use as a filling piecev for neckties. This compound filling piece, prepared as described, is then inserted between, and confined within, the two plies of the cover cof a tie, in the ordinary manner. That part of the tie including the sized intermediate strip is then subjected to heat and pressure which causes the sizing material with which' the strip a is impregnated to more or less dissolve and penetrate the covering I'naterial overlying it and imparts to .the intermediate portion of the tie a The result is that the finished tie is provided with an intermediate section, adapted to be -placed between the folds. ofa collar, so thin that it will not be tightly confined therein, and so smooth that itwill slide freely after the collar is secured tothe shirt.

After the filling piece is inserted within the tie cover as above described, it may be advisable to form two llines of plain or fancy stitches d transversely of the tie at thejunction between the intermediate part and each end part of the tie, these stitches n extending through cover c and the overlapping parts of strips a and b. lThis effectually prevents any displacement of the llingduring the. pressing operation or during subsequent use.

` The desired steaming and compressing ac-' tions may be effected by placing a wet cloth over the intermediate part of the tie and then ironing with an ordinary flat iron or passing thi'sjpart of the tie bet-ween pres" sure rollersl o r. by compressing the same betweenheated plates. I f the tie as a whole is pressed and finished by means of heat and pressure,- it will' loe` unnecessary to subject the intermediate part to any special treatment, as the temporary softening .of the sizing substance, its penetration from the inside into the tie cover, and the final smoothening and compressing of the same will be effected incidentally.

The relatively thin and smooth intermediate part of the tie should preferably not extend entirely around the' neck when the tie is placed in the collar, but should terminate short of the ends of the collar so as to allow considerable leeway in tying.v

While I have spoken of the strip a as an intermediate part, it will be understood that ordinarily this section, in an ordinary fourin-hand tie, will be closer to one end of the filling, piece than the other, one of the endA strips b being made longer than the other to allow it to be folded around 'the other in the ordinary manner of forming the ornamental loop.- It will be understood that this central strip will usually be substantially narrowerthan the end strips, but only to the extent that the intermediate portion of an ordinary filling piece or necktie is narrower than the end portions, it being intended to have the longitudinal edges of the I ent and thinner material than the end parts this is not absolutely essential; as the invention may also be carried .out by making the part L of the same material, preferably cotton or wadding, as the parts and in one unitaryl strip as shown in Fig. 8. The sizing of the part a thereof, followed by heating and compressing the intermediate part of the tie, will eectthe desired result of making this part of the tie substantially thinner and smoother than the end sections 'of the tie.

The invention may also be carried out by taking the 'filling piece of either Figs. 6

yor 8, but without applying sizing to the sec-` tion a, and inserting and confining the same `within the cover of a tie, then' applying sizing material to the outside of the inter- 4mediate section of the tie, and then applying heat and pressure as above described.

The invention may. also be carried out by yaltogether omitting the intermediate' part a ofthe filling piece and preferably, in addition applying sizing to thle intermediate part of the tie, preferably to the inside thereof, before the same is sewedinto shape.A

The invention may also be carried out by taking a thin sheet of solid gelatin or glue, or other suitable sizing and substituting it for, or applying it to, the intermediate part of the filling. Less preferably, the tie may be formed by utilizing a filling piece similar to that shown in- Fig. 6 in which the sizing may be omitted from the strip a or from that part of the tie inclosing the strip, relianceibeing had wholly upon the greater natural thinness, or stiffness and thinness, of the strip a to impart to the tie the desired capacity of ready slippage between the wings of the collar.

In ties composed of such thickness that alling piecel is omitted, the desired result may be produced by sizing, and .then heating and pressing, the intermediate section thereof, as before described."

I do not herein claim as my invention the Aspeciiic embodiment of my broad invention wherein the neck-band section of the coger,

or a portionthereof, is made of anti-friction material difiereny 1% from the material of which the remaining part of the vcover is made.

t'iallyl throughout the length of the tie, and

` mediate sect-ion whereby the ltie is rendered comprising relatively thick and soft end sections and a relatively t-hin and smooth intermediate section. j

2. A necktie formed of a two-ply covering fabric extending continuously throughout the length of the tie anda filling piece con-l fined between the plies, in which an intermediate portion of the tie is substantially thinner andA smoother than-the end portions.

,3. A necktie comprising an elongated fabric having `a centralv section-of Asubstantially greater smoothness and less thickness than the end sections and in which the ends of the intermediate section 'are `of substantially the same width as the adjacent ends of the end sections and in which the edges of adjoining sections are substantially .flush or in alinement.

4. A necktie comprisinga cover and filling in which thecover extends continuously' 'throughout the length ofthe tie and in which an intermediate portion of the tie'is substantially thinner than the end portions.

5. A necktie, formed of an elongated twoply fabric and a filling piece confined between t-he plies, in which both the two-ply fabric and the filling piece extend substantially throughoutthe length'of thetie,l said tie having a sized and. compressed interfreely slidable between the folds of a collar. 6.*A necktie comprising two end 'sections anda sized and compressed intermediate sect-ion in which the longitudinal edges of the intermediate section are substantially flush or in alinement with the longitudinal edges of the end sections. v

A necktie vformed throughout its length of an elongated two ply cover fabric and a filling piece, confined vbetween the plies, comprising, an intermediate filling strip of sized and relatively thin material and unsized end filling strips of relativelythick material. .1 4

8. A necktie formed throughout its length y of an'elongated two ply cover fabric anda filling piece, confined between the plies, comprising an intermediate filling strip of relaplyA fabric and tively thin' material and end filling strips ot relatively thick material whose longitudinal edges are substantially flush or in alinement with the longitudinal edges of the intermediate strip. I

9. A filling piece for neckties having a sized intermediate portion and unsized end portions.

10. A filling piece foLneckt-ies comprising end filling strips .of .relatively thick and soft material and an intermediate filling strip' of relatively thin material whose longitudinal edges are substantially flush or in alinement with the longitudinal edges'of the end strip. j A

11. In. a necktie the combination of a neckband and two tying ends, an interlining in said necktie thinner in the neckband portion than in the tying ends.

12. As 'an article of manufacture, a necktie having two tying ends and a neckband.

made of suitable fabric, a portion of -said lneckband being thinner butof substantially equal width with the adjoining portion of said neckband.

' 13. As an article of manufacture, a necktie having two tying ends and a neckbandf made of suitable fabric, a portion of' said neckband being thinner but of substantially equal width with the adjoining portion of the neckband, and inter-'linings in the tying ends independent of. each other.

14. As an article of manufacture, a necktie having two tying ends and a neckband made of suit-able fabric, a portion ofsaidneckband being substantially s'olid and thinner than the adjoining portions and of sub- Lstantiaily equal width with the adjoining portions.

15. A necktie formed of an elongated two a fillingf piece confined between the plies, said filling piece being thin ner in a portion of the neck'band than in the tying ends, and being secured between the plies of the said fabric by means of rows of stitching.

16. A necktie comprising two end sections and a compressed intermediate section containing a sized in'terlining.

In testimony of-which invention, I have hereunto set my hand, at Philadelphia, on

this 6th day of June, 1908.

JACOB LIVINGSTON HILL.

A Witnesses:

M. M. HAMILTON,

E. E. WALL. 

